Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Grus (Gru)  ·  Contains:  HD219630  ·  HD219899  ·  IC 5308  ·  NGC 7582  ·  NGC 7590  ·  NGC 7599
Grus quartet and the galactic salt and pepper, ChrisG_BNE
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Grus quartet and the galactic salt and pepper

Grus quartet and the galactic salt and pepper, ChrisG_BNE
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Grus quartet and the galactic salt and pepper

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I set out to image the cluster of three galaxies in the Grus quartet just as a quick one night project. On stacking that data I noticed some faint galaxies in the background and decided to image some more.   There are galaxies everywhere in this image - the more you look the more you will see - its like sprinkling salt and pepper through the sky - just amazing to be able to image this from my Bort6 back yard!
In total I imaged 21hrs of useable data over four nights, but I had some significant light pollution from near full moon on a couple of nights, and bad light pollution gradients from being low in the sky at the start of each session (20-25deg).  In the end I culled the data back to the best 534mins of data.

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Grus quartet and the galactic salt and pepper, ChrisG_BNE